DEIR ALBALA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli military airstrikes on cars in Gaza Strip. Gaza Strip Five people died Saturday, including an employee. world central kitchen. The charity said it was “urgently seeking more details” after the Israeli military announced it had targeted WCK personnel who took part in the Hamas attack that sparked the war.
WCK said it was “heartbroken” and had no knowledge that there was anyone in the car claiming a connection to the attack on October 7, 2023. “We are working on incomplete information. There is,” he added. It said it was temporarily suspending operations in Gaza. The company suspended operations earlier this year after seven employees were killed in an Israeli attack.
The Israeli military said in a statement that the alleged attacker of October 7 took part in the attack. Kibbutz attack As for Nir Oz, he called on “high-ranking members of the international community” and WCK to reveal how he came to work for the charity.
The family of Ahed Azmi Khudei, who was named by Israel, denied the charges as “false charges” and acknowledged in a statement that he had been working with charities. Israel named him Hazmi Kadi.
This strike highlighted the following The dangerous job of delivering aid in GazaThe war displaced most of the country’s 2.3 million people and caused widespread famine.
At Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis, a woman held up an employee badge with the WCK logo and the word “contractor.” His belongings – a burnt-out cell phone, a watch and a sticker with the WCK logo – were lying on the floor.
Nazmi Ahmed said her nephew had been working at WCK for the past year. He said he was driving to the charity’s kitchen and warehouse.
“Today he went to work as usual… and was targeted without any prior warning or reason,” Ahmed said.
In April, a strike against WCK aid convoys killed seven workers: three British nationals, a Polish and Australian citizen, a dual Canadian and American citizen, and a Palestinian worker. The Israeli military claimed this was a mistake. The strike sparked an international outcry. In August, another Palestinian WCK employee was killed by debris from an Israeli airstrike, the group said.
Another Israeli airstrike on Saturday killed 13 people, including children, when a car crashed near a food distribution center in Khan Yunis. Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis received the body.
“They were distributing aid and vegetables and we saw missiles land,” said eyewitness Rami al-Solih. The woman was sitting on the ground crying.
Save the Children said a local employee was killed in an airstrike in Khan Yunis while returning from a mosque.
Hospital director Kamal Adwan also reported an attack in Tal al-Zatar in northern Beit Lahiya, where Israeli forces are active, and based on eyewitness accounts, well over 100 people were killed in the rubble. It was assumed that he had been crushed under the vehicle. He said the area remains off-limits.
ceasefire appears to hold
Efforts toward a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have stalled. but Agreement brokered by the United States and France Lebanon seems to be open from Wednesday.
Displaced people return to Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon following the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that took effect on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussain)
The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had attacked a base used to smuggle weapons from Syria to Lebanon after the ceasefire took effect. There was no immediate comment from Syrian authorities or Hezbollah. Israeli aircraft have attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon several times for violating the ceasefire.
Israel’s attack on Syria came as rebel forces entered the country’s largest city, Aleppo. bring new uncertainties To the region.
The ceasefire between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah calls for an initial two-month cease-fire in which the insurgents withdraw from Lebanon’s north of the Litani River and Israeli forces return to their side of the border.
Many Lebanese, including some of the 1.2 million displaced people, streaming home Despite warnings from the Israeli and Lebanese forces to avoid certain areas.
“Day by day, we will return to normal life,” said Mustafa Badawi, a cafe owner in Tire.
cost of conflict
Lebanese state news agency said two people were killed and two injured in an Israeli drone attack on the village of Rub Taraseen, and another person was hit by a car in the village of Majdal Zaun. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said three people were injured, including a 7-year-old child.
The Israeli military said it was carrying out an operation to keep away “suspects” in the area, without giving details. Israel says it reserves the right to attack any perceived violations.
Israel aims to secure the return of tens of thousands of displaced people. But they I’m starting to feel anxious..
“No, it won’t be the same as before,” said Ravi Eini, one of the Israeli evacuees.
Hezbollah, in solidarity with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, launched an attack on Israel on October 8, 2023. Israel and Hezbollah continued cross-border shelling until Israel escalated its attacks. Detonated hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies Used by Hezbollah. It then launched heavy airstrikes, killing Hezbollah leaders, including: Hassan Nasrallahand a ground invasion in October.
Teacher Ahmed Awada inspects a school damaged by an Israeli airstrike in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
Israeli fires have killed more than 3,760 people in Lebanon, many of them civilians, Lebanese health officials said. The fighting killed more than 70 Israelis, more than half of them civilians, as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.
The Hamas attack in October 2023 killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took about 250 hostages.
On Saturday, Hamas released a video of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander. Speaking under duress, Alexander referred to his 420 days in detention and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent offer of $5 million for the return of the hostages.
“Mr. Prime Minister, you should be protecting our soldiers and our people, and you have failed us,” Alexander said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said he spoke with Alexander’s family after the release of a “brutal psychological warfare video” containing “important and evocative signs of life.”
“(Prime Minister Netanyahu) reassured me and assured me that now that we have an agreement in Lebanon, the conditions are in place for you all to be released and sent home,” said Alexander’s mother, Yael. he told protesters in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.
U.S. National Security Council spokesman Sean Savet said in a statement that the hostage video is “a brutal reminder of Hamas’ terror against the peoples of multiple countries, including our own.”
“If Hamas agreed to release the hostages, the war in Gaza would stop tomorrow and the suffering of Gazans would end immediately and would have ended months ago,” the newspaper said.
More than 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli retaliatory attacks in Gaza, local health officials say, with more than half of the dead being women and children, although they do not count civilians and fighters separately. It is said that
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Tia Goldenberg reported from Tel Aviv, Israel, and Bassem Mrou from Beirut. Mohammad Jajou contributed to this report from Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
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